The drilling, which started with Noble jack-up rig Tommy Craighead, aims to appraise the Deep Omicron oil discovery encountered in the Sapele-1 exploration well.
The well is to be drilled to an estimated vertical depth of circa 3,682m (4,761m measured depth) approximately 2km Southeast from the Deep Omicron oil discovery in the original vertical well.
The company said that the drilling is expected to take approximately 40 to 50 days (excluding testing).
The Vantage Sapphire jack-up rig has now been contracted and consequently the Sapele-2 well is expected to spud mid March 2011 as a material step-out down dip from the Sapele-1 location.
